racial stereotypes
Biased group assumptions
Racial stereotypes are oversimplified, fixed ideas about people based on their race or ethnicity—assumptions that members of a group share particular traits, behaviors, or abilities.
These generalizations persist even when contradicted by evidence: The job interviewer couldn't see past racial stereotypes.
Stereotypes range from seemingly positive attributions (Asians are good at math) to overtly hostile ones, but all reduce individuals to group caricatures.
- prejudicePreformed unfavorable opinion
- Uncle TomPejorative for racial subservience
- discriminationUnjust differential treatment
- systemic racismDiscrimination embedded in institutions
- otheringViewing as fundamentally different
mammy · bias · trope · tokenism · caricature · skin · blackface · minstrelsy · segregation · redlining · stop and frisk · racism · jezebel · welfare queen · model minority · self-esteem · media framing · microaggressions
- race literatureHarlem Renaissance, slave narratives, minority voices, protest literature, Jim Crow
- racial injusticesystemic racism, institutional racism, discrimination, segregation, Jim Crow
- racial artHarlem Renaissance, indigenous art, African art, Asian art, ethnic art
- racismracism, white supremacy, bigotry, segregation, hate crime
- Black CinemaDo the Right Thing, Moonlight, Black Panther, Coming to America, Friday
- media biasmedia bias, bias, editorial bias, slant, partisan
racial stereotypesracial equality
Equal treatment regardless of ancestry
equal treatment · racial justice · inclusivity · egalitarianism · antiracism